Word: jocularities
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...Wallace's one disorganized, idiotic speech in any way that would stop his complaining about the fancy eastern press is the first thing that makes traveling with him so odd. Wallace's famous hatred of the press, combined with the reporters' bemused contempt for Wallace, has created a strangely jocular atmosphere between the press and the candidate...
...Jocular freshman coach Bob Hunt expressed post-meet satisfaction with his team's ability to win in a large field...
...Knave, is more intricately patterned. But King, Queen, Knave is tricky enough-the ap-pearance-and-reality theme as applied to the eternal love triangle. In Nabokov's idiosyncratic geometry, all three angles are obtuse: Kurt Dreyer, fiftyish, owner of a prosperous department store, is suffused with a jocular egomania; Martha, his 34-year-old wife, beautiful and sybaritic, is dimmed by compulsively romantic restlessness and anticipation; Franz, Dreyer's youthful nephew and employee, is a myopic, precariously balanced bumpkin...
...Your reference to me, however jocular, as the "resident fascist pig" of Harvard's Adams House contained erroneous implications. Already I am receiving lauda tory mail from "rightists," confirming my fear that the article implied that I am an uncompromising hawk on the war and that I have been abused by doves at Harvard. Nothing could be further from the truth. The appellate "resident fascist" was a jest made in absolute good nature by a close friend. The vast majority of Harvard students accept returning Vietvets with much interest and understanding...
Sometimes Buckley caters to the repressive streak common to many U.S. conservatives. During his campaign for mayor of New York in 1965, he gave a speech to the police telling them how much they had been maligned by the press. Heavily criticized for his jocular references to questionable police practices, he did not back down a bit. "The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs," he said testily. "I suppose they will have to use poison...